Manuel Antonio de Rivas

Manuel Antonio de Rivas was a Franciscan friar in Mérida, a Spanish colonial town on the Yucatán Peninsula. Details of his life are sketchy, though there are court documents that prove that in the 1770s he was accused of heresy.^[1] He is best known for an account of a journey of lunar discovery, Syzygies and Lunar Quadratures, which is credited as the first science fiction text written in the Americas.^[2]

^ Sigal, Peter Herman (2000). From moon goddesses to virgins: the colonization of Yucatecan Maya sexual desire. U of Texas P. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-292-77753-8.
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[sigal-1] Sigal, Peter Herman (2000). From moon goddesses to virgins: the colonization of Yucatecan Maya sexual desire. U of Texas P. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-292-77753-8.

[birth-2] Cite error: The named reference birth was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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